Spencer Lee Lenfield

Spencer Lee Lenfield will begin a PhD in comparative literature at Yale in fall 2018. He has reviewed books for Slate and other publications, is a contributing editor at Harvard Magazine, and blogs at Loose Signatures. He was adopted from Korea as an infant.

Given the overall paucity of novels about interracial adoption, it is striking that no fewer than three were published in 2017. In general, reviewers warmly received Shanthi Sekaran’s Lucky Boy, Lisa ...